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Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi (2024)
Book
Hezser, C. (2024). Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350421011

Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian scholars in late antiquity, this book examines the development of Palestinian rabbinic compilations from social-historical... Read More about Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi.

Review of: Andreas Lehnardt, Übersetzung des Talmud Yerushalmi, vol. 1.5: Seder Zeraim: Shevi’it, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023 (2024)
Journal Article
Hezser, C. (2024). Review of: Andreas Lehnardt, Übersetzung des Talmud Yerushalmi, vol. 1.5: Seder Zeraim: Shevi’it, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. Review of biblical literature, 2024,

Jewish Education, Reading and Writing in Hellenistic and Early Roman Palestine (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Jewish Education, Reading and Writing in Hellenistic and Early Roman Palestine. In W. Ameling (Ed.), Handbook of the Septuagint, vol. 4: The Historical and Cultural Context of the Septuagint (200-214). Gütersloher Verlagshaus

Review of: Ben Zion Rosenfeld, Credit and Usury in Jewish Society in the Mishnah and Talmud, Leiden: Brill, 2024 (2024)
Journal Article
Hezser, C. (2024). Review of: Ben Zion Rosenfeld, Credit and Usury in Jewish Society in the Mishnah and Talmud, Leiden: Brill, 2024. Theologische Literaturzeitung, 149(10), 917-919

Plurisignation in Biblical and Rabbinic Law: The Meaning and Punishment of 'Rape' (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Plurisignation in Biblical and Rabbinic Law: The Meaning and Punishment of 'Rape'. In C. Bakhos, & A. M. Gray (Eds.), Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin (385-407). Brown Judaic Studies

Jewish Monotheism and Slavery (2024)
Book
Hezser, C. (2024). Jewish Monotheism and Slavery. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009260497

Biblical monotheism imagines God as a slave master who owns and has total control over humans as his slaves, who are expected to show obedience to him. The theological use of slavery metaphors has a limited value, however, and is deeply problematic f... Read More about Jewish Monotheism and Slavery.

Introduction: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Introduction: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (1-11). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-1

By focusing on Jews and Judaism in late antiquity, this Handbook fills a gap left by other volumes that deal with early Byzantine Christianity only. Jews interacted and competed with pagans and Christians and experienced a number of significant devel... Read More about Introduction: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity.

Antiquarianism, Scholasticism, and Rabbinic Anthologies (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Antiquarianism, Scholasticism, and Rabbinic Anthologies. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (263-274). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-21

Late antiquity saw the creation of large compilations of centuries of traditional knowledge in Jewish as well as in Roman and Byzantine Christian society. The compilations were meant to preserve knowledge that had gained specific significance in the... Read More about Antiquarianism, Scholasticism, and Rabbinic Anthologies.

Attitudes Torward the Body (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Attitudes Torward the Body. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (216-228). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-17

Jewish attitudes toward the human body differed significantly from Christian attitudes in late antiquity. In contrast to the Christian emphasis on the soul and its survival after death, rabbis insisted that body and soul constituted an inseparable un... Read More about Attitudes Torward the Body.

Rabbis and the Image of the Intellectual (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Rabbis and the Image of the Intellectual. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (171-184). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-14

Late antique rabbis presented themselves as a particularly Jewish type of ancient intellectuals, also represented by Graeco-Roman philosophers, rhetoricians, sophists, and church fathers. Like other scholars, they studied, preserved, developed, and a... Read More about Rabbis and the Image of the Intellectual.